Aviationreporting.com is the website of a group of aviation journalists who visit international airshows and airports since the late 1980's. Several pictures we made during these visits have been published in various international magazines. At this website you can find several reports of modern aviation and stored and preserved aircaft from all over the...

Welcome to my website on Aviation History and Photograpy. While I grew up near a military air base Soesterberg AB , there was many a day I skipped school and took my camera to take pictures of the resident United States Air Force Europe jets of the 32 TFS and visitors to the Dutch part of Soesterberg Air Force Base. All through the 1970s and 1980s I concentrated on military aviation, though there were large breaks because of other interests e.g. travel and photography . In 1977 I was released from the Dutch Air Force, thus ending my enlistment which lasted 16 months. I found a job at Amsterdam International Airport Schiphol and have been there ever since with various employers and in various jobs . Consequently, my interest began to shift from military aviation to civil aviation. Since the early 1990s I became interested in the early stages of the airline industry and thus started to read about propliners , as well as searching them out during my travels and aiming my camera on them for my personal collection. It s not that I am just interested in getting the planes on film or digital, these days , but I also like to know what s what and was what with the planes and companies that operated them.

There are now well over 2,000 photos of aircraft and helicopters on the site and hundreds of visitors a day, thank you all. It makes for a remarkable website. We hope you ll continue to add more photos! Images can be viewed by year, by album, by manufacturer, by country or by contributor, or you can use the simple search at the top of this page. Tip: Use the Additions option in the topmenu to see all the changes since your last visit or to see all the photos and comments of the last couple of days! When viewing the pictures you can leave your own comments using the form at the foot of each page. In this way we hope to build up an extensive collection of information, reminiscences and anecdotes. There are 363 comments on the site at present. You are also able to make your own album of the images your favourites of the photos on the site and make this publically available if you wish. Use the My Album link at the bottom. If you want to add your pictures please make sure they are no wider than 720 pixels and less than 200KB and use the form at the bottom or send them to us at info planesandchoppers.com.